Audioguida 6b Susa (room 304)

In this showcase 8 (5), notice this Gold worshiper (Sb 2758)

This statuette from Susa shows a figure in the attitude of prayer, the right hand lifted, and a goat under the left arm. The tenon beneath the base allowed it to be held upright by pushing it into a support.

In Susa as in Mesopotamia, the supreme act of piety consisted of bringing divinities an offering, and then preserving the eternal memory of this act by depositing a figurine of the believer himself.

As says the archaeologist Andre Parrot, the first curator of the museum, the statuette, like the candle today in Catholic worship, was really the substitute for the faithful